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hm, i only got STARTED with mini-books - but the ones I made I love! One 's about a lovely day we spent on a castle in our region/Black Forest/Germany with my sister in law and her husband.
The other one is a mini-mini-book - its about logging our found Geocaches abroad in France - in a McDonald's where we got free wireless-lan - the covers are made out of 2 lids of espresso-cups from McDonald's - so it's really really small...
We'll see what comes next - I need some real-how-to-information...
Your book WILL BE INSPIRATION!
Lovely greetings from Germany
Katharina (;

My favorite mini book is one of my cats life from the day I went to the Humane Society to pick her up all the way through her short life. I was so blessed to have her in my life and LOVED and cried while making my mini book.

Wow so many comments..! I am sure mine won't even get read but her it goes anyway. My favortie MINI book would be one I title LOVE. All the pictures are people, places and thing I LOVE. I leave out in the center of our kitchen table to enjoy everyday.
THANKS :)
Jane

My favorite mini book is a scrapbook I made as a gift for my grandma. It is about my admiration and love for her. It is filled with pictues of her and me. I had so much fun making it, and she loves it. It makes me feel good that every time I go to her house, she has it on display. My next mini book project is going to be a book all about me. I don't have any albums or pages about me growing up, and very few current pages. I'd like to have a book that I can keep adding to as I age. Hope I win, it looks like another excellent book from you!
jscrapfreak@hotmail.com

I have gone through all the photos of me for the last 46 years. I am planning to make an album to show that I always was slim (cos I didn't think that I was) with positive words of beauty and kindness for my children.

My favorite mini book is always the one I just finished so my favorite is my 2003 UT trip. My boys love it because they don't remember much of the trip so it gives them a look at their lives when they were younger.

I just started a mini book covering my daughter's third year. I was a huge slaker last year (she's already four 1/2 now) and instead of trying to play catch up with a million different layouts, I picked my favorite photos from her third year to highlight.
I narrowed it down to about 25 and together they sum up all the important parts of the year. I made my own 6x6 mini book with coordinating cardstock and patterned paper thanks to a binding maching my best friend has. Now, I just have to put the pictures in, embelish and journal.
I'm so excited about this project, as it only took me a single night to get the bulk of the work done. A few more nights of this and I'll have a whole year in one book!

This sure sounds like a great book!
My last project was smuddering and covering a little album with gesso and distressinks as a thank you for my sister in law who just gave me her brandnew bike for free!! Awesome!!! She wanted to have one on batteries and I got hers for free!!!! I made her a little gardenbook. The result you can see on my blog.

My favorite mini book is one that my 11 year old daughter made for me for my birthday. It is filled with photos of the two of us and melts my heart every time I see it.

I love mini books. I am currently working on 2. An ABC zoo book for my 4 y/o using pictures I took at our zoo. Aidan loves the zoo and I want him to be able to recognize the animals in the book with the ones we see at the zoo. I am using the ABC file tabs (thank you Ali for showing the idea. :) )The other book is about me. Just a bunch of little things about me that my kids may not know.

Love mini-books! I appreciate that you have the idea of doing a book about it, since they are so simple and easy to make.
My next project is to do a House acrylic mini-album I just bought at the LSS that I work on. I would include the favorites of my house and the status of it, since is being in "the making"...I plan to do that every year and compare how has change thru the years.

My favorite is a book I made for my brother. He is an avid fisherman and he usually fishes 3 days a week when the salmon are running and in season here in the Pacific NW. He sends out these great emails with photos of every successful trip. In 2005 I kept every email and every photo(s) in date order. After editing and embellishements, it was fantastic. Masculine, yet funny and touching (it was all in his own words). He has never made fun of me for scrapbooking again!

my favorite mini book is a "keepsakes of us" i made to celebrate 15 years of marriage - it included all those movie stubs, photos, cards, love letters that i had been tossing into a shoebox over the years ! i never could figure out how to scrapbook them & a mini book was the perfect solution ! thanks Ali :)

I love to make mini books of holidays, mostly digital so that I can send a copy to members of my family. My favourite is the one I make about our holidays in Brazil to visit my parents. It was the first time in a long while that I spent Christmas with them so it was very special.

I'm doing a mini-book of my granddaughter's first 11 months while her dad was in Iraq. Just something to show him what he missed :-( [PS he's home safe & sound now!]

I love to make mini books of holidays, mostly digital so that I can send a copy to members of my family. My favourite is the one I make about our holidays in Brazil to visit my parents. It was the first time in a long while that I spent Christmas with them so it was very special.

Having a 4 month old boy I like to read to him just before he gets into bed. As I read other people's books to him, I thought why not write my own book for him? So the next minibook I make will be about our daily walk down our street. It will have pictures of all the animals - cows, horses, kangaroos, birds, sheep and all the gorgeous trees. I'm either going to have the pages laminated or printed like a "real" book so he can touch and turn pages himself. Thanks for all your inspiration.

i think i am late but i still want to send in my comment.
i made a mini book about my hubby and my son which i entered in a local maya road contest and i enjoyed doing it because it was my first ever mini book and i really exerted a lot of effort and time on it.

oh fun, fun! I'm planning a mini book of my son's 2nd birthday party.

I haven't accomplished many mini-books, but one I loved was a project my 5-year-old and I made for father's day this year. He picked out the cosmo cricket robot paper, and we made a book with reasons my husband is a great daddy. We didn't have photos, but my son drew pictures to go with each thing. We put it all together with my bind it all that had been collecting dust, and he was so proud of our project!